Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-08-19
REMOVING THE DEAD.

While the fight had been going on men
had been dying and there were not so
many wounded to take out of the wreck
as there were four hours before. But in
the meantime the country had been
aroused; help had come from Chatsworth,
Forest and Piper City, and as the dead
were laid reverently along side of each
other, out in the corn field, there were
ready hands to take them into Chatsworth,
while some of the wounded were carried
to Piper City. One hundred and eighteen
was the awful poll of the dead, while the
wounded number four times that many.
The full tale of the dead cannot, however,
be told yet for days.
Chatsworth was turned into a morgue
to-day. The town hall, the engine house.
the depot, were all full of dead bodies,
while every house in the little village had
its quota of the wounded. There were
over 100 corpses in the extemporized
dead houses, and every man and woman
was turned into an amateur bat Jealous
nurse. Over in lumber yard the noise of
hammers and saws rang out in the air,
and IN 1t busy carpenters were making
rough collins to carry to their homes the
dead bodies of the excursionists, who,
twelve hours previous, had left their
homes full of pleasurable expectations of
the enjoyment they were going to have
during the vacation which had begun.
SAD INCIDENT.
There was one incident of the accident
which stood out more horrible than all
of those horrible scenes. In the second
coach was man, his wife and little child.
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but 1t is said he got on at Peoria. When
the accident ACQUIRED the entire family
of three was caught and held down by
broken woodwork. Finally when relief
can the man turned to the friendly aid
and feebly said: "Take out my wife first,
I'm afraid the child is dead.' So they
carried out the mother and as a broken
seat was taken off her crushed breast,
the blood which welled from her lips told
how badly she was hurt. They carried
the child, fair haired blue-eyed girl of
years, and laid her in a cornfeld, dead,
alongside of her dying mother. Then
they went back for the father and brought
him out. Both his legs were broken, but
he crawled through the corn to the side
of his wife and feeling her loved features
IN the darkness, pressed some brandy to
hoA AAPS stho dSAeu nOW SuS ISlI. a 1eSOie
groan was the only answer and the next
instant she died. The man felt the dead
forms of his wife and child and cried out,
my God, there is nothing more for me to
live for now," and taking pistol out of
his pocket, pulled the trigger. Tho bull
let went surely through his brain and the
three dead bodies of that little family are
now lying side by side in Chatsworth
waiting to be identified
About o'clock in the afternoon one of
the Times staff was driven out to the
wreck. The driveway led along to the
left of the railroad and to the south of
the road was an old-fashioned Usage
orange hedge. The road was very muddy
and full of chuch holes. 4 stream of
humanity was pouring in from the wreck.
Some had checks in their hats and carried
valises. They were evidently passengers
on the Inflated train, CountrJ boys ana
girls came along swinging hands and
talking In tones about the terrible disas-
ter. photographer dragged his heavy
limbs along the track. He was carrying
q camera and q lot of negatives. The
roadoed was almost level, just little
grade running up to the wreck at a raise
of ten or fifteen feet to the mile. About
two or three miles from the town on a
little raise was the debris of the wreck.
The sleeping car Tunis was at the end
of the train. 1t was lacked in the air,
supported by the tresules. HE front end
of the car was directly over where the
bridge stood.